Staff RF Engineer

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Join our team and be a part of something bigger than yourself. We need a diverse set of perspectives and expertise to take on some of the world’s toughest scientific, engineering, and commercial challenges while also having a fun and rewarding career! Are you ready to take on this challenge? Apply now and help us scale Lyten 3D Graphene™ into all of its many potential applications and be a part of this groundbreaking transformation.

We’re looking for passionate and talented individuals who want to work at Lyten and help create a brighter future for generations to come!

Staff RF Engineer

Lyten seeks an experienced and motivated Staff RF Engineer to leverage physics and engineering knowledge to innovate solutions to national-level challenges, driving these solutions from concept to final product utilizing novel meta-surfaces and meta-material structures. Requires experience in designing, producing and evaluating cutting-edge advanced coatings. The selected candidate will invent new concepts, create theoretical models, perform cutting edge research to fabricate and characterize material needed to shape coating technologies, develop prototypes, and collect and present data to support proofs of concept.

This Staff RF Engineer will join a team of experimental staff members who are passionate about developing innovative solutions that can impact the future development and application of electromagnetic devices involving novel meta-surface designs. With these teams, the selected candidate will leverage commercial computational tools to build simulations and develop numerical solutions for problems pertaining to the interaction of electromagnetic fields with novel meta-surfaces and metamaterial structures with applications ranging from radio-wave through optical frequencies; extend established design principles and optimization procedures into application domains with poorly defined behaviors or with extreme parameters that challenge the state of the art; lead research efforts through the establishment of collaborative and diverse teams, present results in an effective and timely fashion, and mentor early career staff; and work closely with Lyten team members to engage potential sponsors for the purpose of incubating new programs. Lyten is committed to scientific excellence and continuous improvement in an agile environment.

You are a good fit for this job if:

• You understand and can describe electromagnetic concepts and theories
• You understand RF measurements
• You can work in a multi-disciplinary team
• You have worked with electronic materials
• You have ever collected diverse sets of material property data to tailor a product for a specific purpose

You are a great fit for this job if:

• You have ever worked in an anechoic chamber or measured the RF characteristics of materials
• You have experience with meta materials and/or graphene
• You understand Maxwell’s equations and can explain their importance and relevance to others
• You have any professional experience in RCS, LO technology, RF, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) simulations, or electromagnetics. We will ask you about all of these in your interview

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 3+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members OR Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 5+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members OR Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., business, engineering, sciences) AND 7+ years of experience in a relevant field leading or making significant contributions to multidisciplinary projects where scope requires reliance on the technical experience of other team members
• Have 1+ years’ experience building numerical models for solving electromagnetic problems using commercial tools such as COMSOL or HFSS
• Have a record of creative application of electromagnetics or physics knowledge and numerical methods to solve complex problems in electromagnetic field applications.
• Write scientific programs in at least one high-level language (such as C, C++, or JAVA), in addition to MATLAB and/or PYTHON
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts through verbal and written communications to internal and external customers
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOD Secret Clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional experience in RCS, LO technology, RF, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM) simulations, or electromagnetics
• Experience in modeling multi-physics problems, for example using HFSS, Matlab, VBROP, Xpatch, etc.
• Experience in the research, design, computational electromagnetic modeling, fabrication, and testing of advanced electromagnetic metamaterials
• Familiarity with tailoring EM fields to control reflection, transmission, and absorption by way of patterning surfaces and designing their effective material properties.
• Experience in low observable RF and IR coatings material & processes procedures and requirements, be able to author and release updates and original documents and possess extensive experience with strategic coating materials’ application in a research or production environment.

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance; applicants must be a U.S. Citizens for consideration. Applicants must either have a current SECRET security clearance or be able to obtain an Interim Secret security clearance by the work start date and be qualified to obtain a full clearance upon formal investigation. If selected and if required, the candidate will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet requirements for handling classified information.

Physical Work Requirements:

• Able to lift 25 lbs. and stand for many hours per day.

Compensations Range:

The expected base salary range for this position is between

The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise.

Disclosures:

Pay Transparency Disclosure:

This compensation and benefits information is based on Lyten’s estimate as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. We generally do not negotiate on salary once we have made an offer. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors that may include location, relevant prior experience and/or education, or particular skills and expertise. New hires joining the company tend to be paid within the starting base pay range noted above, with opportunities to increase pay over time based on development of additional skills, competencies, and company-specific knowledge.

In addition to base pay this position is eligible for tier based bonus and equity, healthcare, dental, vision, corporate discounts, paid holidays, PTO and sick time, 401K, employee relocation plan (if applicable)

Export/ITAR Compliance Disclosure:

Certain positions within Lyten, Inc. require compliance with export control laws and, as a result, all interviewed candidates will be screened pre-interview to determine their eligibility in light of export restrictions.

This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls. Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items. Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.

Lyten is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with a disability. EEO Employer/Vet/Disabled.

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